Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Ebola cases could reach 550,000 to 1.4 mln by late Jan -CDC

A U.N. convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan By Sharon Begley (Reuters) - Between 550,000 and 1.4 million people in West Africa could be infected with the Ebola virus by January 20, 2015, according to a study published on Tuesday by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The top range of the estimate, 1.4 million, assumes that the number of cases, 5,864 according to the count kept by the World Health Organization, is significantly underreported, and that it is likely that 2.5 times as many cases, or about 15,000, have in fact occurred. ...




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